Gambling [ Games & Sports ]
… Met Museum, 59.533.348 Image Thomas Rowlandson, ‘The Gaming Table’, 1801, Yale Center for British Art, B1975.4.912 Image Lord Bellew v Gardiner, 1703, TNA, C 6/377/61 Image William Hogarth, ‘A Rake’s Progress’. Plate 6: ‘Scene in a Gaming … The Court Gamester: or, Full and Easy Instructions for Playing the Games now in Vogue (London: E. Curll, 1719), p. iii. Lord Chesterfield wrote to his son: 'I thought Play another necessary ingredient in the composition of a Man of Pleasure.' 12 …
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